This page is dedicated in Loving memory of my Dad
who left us unexpectedly
on May 21st 1991

My Dad.
Ronald Charles Wright.
1933-1991

DAD

I know you.
You don`t let
everyone know
the things
you`re
really feeling.
You don`t feel
you have to talk a lot
to
be heard.
You sometimes like to keep things
to yourself.
But
you never fooled me,
even once.

Even though we hardly ever
talked
about feelings
in so many words,
I always knew
how much
you cared.I knew it in a million ways,
by a million and one
little things you did
to
let it show.

And somehow I`ve always known
that beneath that tough exterior
was the
most special,
loving,
and caring father in the world.
So thanks
for
being the way you are...
you`ll never know
how much it meant
to
have a father like you.
And even though
we don`t often talk
about
feelings
in so many words,
I love you, too...
I always
will.

On the morning of May 21st 1991, On my way to work, I found a greeting card in a
shop, bearing the above verse.
It made me cry, it could have so easily been
about my Dad and me.
Regretfully, Dad and I never really sat and talked,
we just knew how we felt.
I felt compelled to buy the card and give it
to Dad, who was in hospital awaiting an operation on a trapped nerve.
Later
that day, Mum phoned me at work. Dad had taken a turn for the worst. I asked
if I could go and was taken home.
My Brothers were at home and we all went
to the hospital. Dad was having trouble breathing.
We asked for someone
to help several times but no one came. It was about 4 hours before a nurse appeared.
When Dad saw her come into the room, with such huge relief and an
element of shock too,
he had a massive heart attack and died there and then
in front of us all.
Later that night I found the card I didn`t get a chance
to give him-
he never did get to read those words. I have kept the
card ever since.
So, anyone reading this who find this is like you and your
Dad (or Mum or any loved one-)
Please tell them how you feel. Don`t be
like me and take it for granted- you will regret it when it is too late.

25th April 2001
I have just been moved to tears...
I opened my emails and
found this beautiful surprise gift
from my internet friend Pat (aka "totoofoz")
Made
especially for this page in honour of my Dad.
Thank you
so much Pat, your thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated.

I have made this award in My Dad`s Honour.
If You have a memoral site/page,
and would like to have the award,
Please contact me with your site URL,
stating
you are interested in the "Forget-Me-Not" award.

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I Designed this gravestone plaque for this page.
If You would like one for a
special memorial and use Paint Shop Pro,
click on the plaque to go to my
tutorial on how to make one.

DAD`S PAGE

The following poems were on a friend`s website,
she has kindly allowed me to
use them here on my own Dad`s page

My Dad,
His love was always there. no if’s buts or maybe’s
No conditions
or limits or judgments
Creating a cocoon, engulfing me in happiness
Bringing
life and laughter with his very presence
The light of my world,
the essence of my being
My teacher, my guide, my inspiration, my father.

~author
unkown~

Dad,
I do not need a special day to bring you to my mind.
The days I do
not think of you are very hard to find.
Each morning when I awake I know
that you are gone.
And no one knows the heartache as I try to carry on.
My
heart still aches with sadness and secret tears still flow.
What it
meant to lose you no one will ever know.
My thoughts are always with you,
your place no one can fill.
In life I loved you dearly; in death I love you
still.
There will always to be a heartache, and often a silent tear.
But
always a precious memory of the days when you were here.
If tears would
make a staircase, and heartaches make a lane,
I'd walk the path to heaven
and bring you home again.
I hold you close within My heart; and there
you will remain,
To walk with me throughout my life until we meet again.
Our
family chain is broken now, and nothing seems the same,
But as God
calls us one by one, the chain will link again.

~~ author unknown ~~

God Saw You...
God saw you getting tired,
and a cure was not
to be,
So He put his arms around you,
and whispered , "come to Me".
With
tearful eyes we watched you,
and saw you pass away.
And though
we loved you dearly,
we could not make you stay.
A golden heart
stopped beating,
hard-working hands at rest.
God broke our hearts to
prove to us,
He only takes the best...

~Author unknown~

Dad in Germany with American troops...
we were going to Austria they were going
to The Gulf!

Dad spent the last 18 years or so of his life training Army Cadets in Richmond, Surrey,
I took this pic at one of the Rememberance Sunday Parades.